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Montréal Canadiens at Buffalo Sabres

Oct 9, 2019 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 4 27
Buffalo Sabres 5 39

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
05:04 BUF Victor Olofsson (4) PP Jack Eichel (3), Rasmus Dahlin (5) 0 - 1
14:06 MTL Joel Armia (1) SH Nate Thompson (2) 1 - 1
19:39 MTL Joel Armia (2) PP Nick Suzuki (1) 2 - 1
2nd Period
04:46 BUF Jack Eichel (2) PP Rasmus Dahlin (6), Sam Reinhart (3) 2 - 2
14:13 BUF Jack Eichel (3) Unassisted 2 - 3
3rd Period
00:47 BUF Jeff Skinner (3) Marcus Johansson (2) 2 - 4
01:44 MTL Jesperi Kotkaniemi (2) Joel Armia (1), Jonathan Drouin (2) 3 - 4
12:54 MTL Ben Chiarot (1) Artturi Lehkonen (3), Mike Reilly (1) 4 - 4
Overtime
01:30 BUF Marcus Johansson (2) Colin Miller (3), Jack Eichel (4) 4 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:59 MTL Tomas Tatar Interference 2
13:26 MTL Jesperi Kotkaniemi Tripping 2
18:21 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Interference 2
2nd Period
03:58 MTL Tomas Tatar Slashing 2
07:52 BUF Vladimir Sobotka High sticking 2
16:49 MTL Jordan Weal Holding the stick 2
3rd Period
04:20 BUF Marcus Johansson Holding 2
19:25 MTL Phillip Danault Slashing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 51 38 27 4 2.8 48.1
Buffalo Sabres 61 50 39 5 2.7 51.9

How the game went

50510Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo Sabres aheadMontréal Canadiens ahead

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Buffalo Sabres had taken more, and below it and blue while Montréal Canadiens had.

Expected goals

Montréal Canadiens: 2.8 expected, 4 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.7 expected, 5 scored

012Start2nd3rdOTMTL goal, 14:06 of 1st, a 21% chanceMTL goal, 19:39 of 1st, a 20% chanceMTL goal, 1:44 of 3rd, a 11% chanceMTL goal, 12:54 of 3rd, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 5:04 of 1st, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 4:46 of 2nd, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 14:13 of 2nd, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 0:47 of 3rd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 1:30 of overtime, a 19% chanceMTL 2.8BUF 2.7

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

Where the attempts came from

Montréal Canadiens
Buffalo Sabres

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Joel Armia · Jonathan Drouin · Jesperi Kotkaniemi9:1445.561.31-0
Tomas Tatar · Brendan Gallagher · Phillip Danault7:1761.578.30-1
Nate Thompson · Paul Byron · Nick Suzuki5:0857.161.50-0
Jordan Weal · Artturi Lehkonen · Max Domi3:5350.048.00-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Petry · Ben Chiarot15:1560.067.10-1
Shea Weber · Victor Mete13:5936.851.90-1
Mike Reilly · Christian Folin11:5435.337.31-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
40 Joel Armia R 2 1 3 2 0 4 2 16:30 0.64 7-6 0.41-0.18
8 Ben Chiarot D 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 24:11 0.10 19-14 0.72-0.37
82 Jesperi Kotkaniemi C 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 14:38 0.24 7-13 0.41-0.49
6 Mike Reilly D 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 14:09 11-11 0.40-0.41
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 12:29 0.04 8-8 0.25-0.15
44 Nate Thompson C 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 14:07 6-9 0.27-0.32
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 16:52 12-10 0.31-0.33
92 Jonathan Drouin L 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 16:49 8-12 0.30-0.41
2 Jeff Petry D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 23:01 0.04 18-14 0.68-0.41
6 Shea Weber D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 25:27 0.11 11-15 0.66-0.59
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 15:14 0.30 13-10 0.52-0.31
11 Max Domi C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:12 0.12 10-15 0.27-0.61
24 Phillip Danault C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 17:37 0.30 14-6 0.73-0.18
32 Christian Folin D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 12:50 0.01 6-12 0.24-0.42
41 Paul Byron L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 11:56 0.20 8-4 0.46-0.11
43 Jordan Weal C 0 0 0 -1 2 3 0 15:05 0.35 10-14 0.52-0.70
90 Tomas Tatar L 0 0 0 -1 4 3 2 14:51 0.34 9-13 0.62-0.46
98 Victor Mete D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 17:48 8-14 0.65-0.62
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Keith Kinkaid 39 34 5 60:51 2.73 -2.27

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Vladimir Sobotka · Marcus Johansson · Jeff Skinner11:5357.146.91-0
Sam Reinhart · Victor Olofsson · Jack Eichel11:1846.232.91-1
Kyle Okposo · Johan Larsson · Zemgus Girgensons9:1665.267.10-1
Jimmy Vesey · Evan Rodrigues · Casey Mittelstadt5:4028.622.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Ristolainen16:5544.442.51-1
Marco Scandella · Henri Jokiharju14:1069.068.81-0
Colin Miller · Rasmus Dahlin13:0029.410.50-1

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
9 Jack Eichel C 2 2 4 0 0 8 0 21:19 0.44 8-11 0.33-0.52
90 Marcus Johansson L 1 1 2 2 2 1 0 17:32 0.19 12-9 0.44-0.50
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 2 2 -2 2 1 0 17:54 0.03 5-12 0.09-0.72
53 Jeff Skinner L 1 0 1 0 0 6 0 20:01 0.46 14-11 0.60-0.60
95 Victor Olofsson L 1 0 1 -1 0 4 0 16:40 0.41 8-8 0.19-0.40
6 Colin Miller D 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 18:17 0.25 5-12 0.09-0.72
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 20:56 0.13 8-11 0.33-0.53
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 17:53 0.06 23-10 0.90-0.39
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 11:49 0.16 17-8 0.56-0.27
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 09:26 0.06 2-5 0.07-0.23
17 Vladimir Sobotka C 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 15:25 0.10 13-12 0.46-0.61
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:07 2-7 0.07-0.29
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 16:53 0.05 20-9 0.87-0.39
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 15:16 0.10 18-10 0.57-0.37
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 21:36 13-16 0.44-0.57
26 Jimmy Vesey L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:29 0.03 2-10 0.07-0.43
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 14:23 0.22 16-9 0.56-0.33
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 25:00 0.05 14-15 0.44-0.57
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Carter Hutton 27 23 4 61:16 2.80 -1.20